My tower runs a 1500X on a stock cooler, 8 GB of RAM, 1060 3GB, AX370 Gaming K3 Motherboard, 480gb ssd, and a 650 psu. I have NOT overclocked it at all, fearing to void the warranty.
So the story goes like this:
I downloaded some gigabyte applications then deleted them because I didn't like them.
I realized my BIOS was not up to date so I updated that.
I then installed Ryzen Master Control and AMD's chipset drivers wondering if it'll help with performance.
It did help with the benches a bit but what I noticed later was I was running hot, 45 to 50 C all the time on idle.
I then noticed my clock speeds were fixed at 3.5 GHZ on the ryzen master control and CPU-Z was showing 3.9 GHZ and 1.45V spikes.
I checked my power plan settings and noticed it was on AMD power plan management, I chose the default power plan and the temperatures dropped to 36C,volts at 0.8 around about, and the CPU was at 1.55 GHZ
The thing is, the benchmarks showed a performance decrease as well which is annoying.
I tried reinstalling the drivers but nothing happened.
Anyone been through this or know a fix? I'd rather not manually fix the volts at a certain number as that would void the warranty and disable the xfr making me regret the 1500x since 1600 would've been the better choice then.